Writing and healing : toward an informed practice /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana, Ill. :
National Council of Teachers of English,
[2000]
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| Series: | Refiguring English studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Finding our way in
- Whose voice is it anyway? / Anne Ruggles Gere
- Language and literature as "equipment for living" : revision as a life skill / Tilly Warnock
- Suture, stigma, and the pages that heal / Charles M. Anderson with Karen Holt and Patty McGady
- 2. Traditions and extensions
- Writing as healing and the rhetorical tradition : sorting out Plato, postmodernism, writing pedagogy, and post-traumatic stress disorder / T.R. Johnson
- A strange unaccountable something : historicizing sexual abuse essays / Michelle Payne
- From trauma to writing : a theoretical model for practical use / Marian M. MacCurdy
- Healing and the brain / Alice G. Brand
- Pathography and enabling myths : the process of healing / Anne Hunsaker Hawkins
- 3. Writing and healing in the classroom
- Language, power, and consciousness : a writing experiment at the University of Toronto / Guy Allen
- Writing about suicide / Jeffrey Berman and Jonathan Schiff
- Teaching emotional literacy / Jerome Bump
- Writing through the fear to reframe experience and discover values / Regina Paxton Foehr
- 4. Writing and healing in the world
- Voices from the line : the Clothesline Project as healing text / Laura Julier
- "The more I tell my story" : writing as healing in an HIV/AIDS community / Emily Nye
- Las Madres, upstairs/downstairs : from soul maps and story circles to intertextual collaboration / Sandra Florence.